The --help command isn't very clear about this, but the feature does work when you put the "--working-directory" option BEFORE AN EXPLICIT " --window" option.
However, the tilde "~" symbol may or may not work, depending on the environment where the terminal is launched from. For example, I wanted to open a terminal at my home's desktop folder using a keyboard shortcut. I found that my window manager's keyboard shortcuts settings does not parse the tilde correctly, so my workaround was this: gnome-terminal --working-directory=/home/USERNAME/desktop --window Replacing USERNAME with the username of my own. I hope this clears the confusion for all gnome-terminal users hereon. It does work, it just has some quirks to it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1587154 Title: --working-directory does not work anymore Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: After upgrading from ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 one of my script the uses --working-directory option stopped working. Simply running: gnome-terminal --working-directory=/tmp Starts the terminal in my home directory. Changing the command to gnome-terminal.real does not solve my problem either. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1587154/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
